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      <p>I know you&#8217;ve all seen <a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-04-world-deadliest-volcanoesand-theyre-dangerous.html">lists like this</a> before: what is the &#8220;<a href="http://www.iflscience.com/environment/whats-the-most-dangerous-volcano-in-the-world/">world&#8217;s most dangerous volcano</a>&#8220;? Most of the time, that discuss devolves quickly into something about &#8220;<a href="https://www.wired.com/2013/10/the-rise-of-supervolcano/">supervolcanoes</a>&#8220;, which is very exciting and all because they can generate massive eruptions. However, they are far from being the &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; volcano.</p>
<p>But wait, what does &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; even mean for volcanoes? Are you talking about a volcano that is most active? That would be <a href="https://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/">Kilaue</a>a in Hawaii and that&#8217;s far from &#8220;most dangerous&#8221;. What about the biggest volcano? That&#8217;s hard to quantify, but maybe it would be <a href="https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/">Yellowstone</a> &#8230; and you&#8217;ll see why it is definitely not the &#8220;most dangerous&#8221;. What about largest eruption? Even that isn&#8217;t the best measure of &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; because <a href="http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/E08-023">some very large eruptions have been in the middle of nowhere</a>.</p>
<p>So, what would I consider &#8220;most dangerous&#8221;? It comes down to a few key factors:</p>
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<li><strong>What is the volcano&#8217;s eruptive history?</strong> Numerous voluminous explosive eruptions in the last few thousand years is a sign that the volcano has a potential for significant impact on its local environment. There might even be a few volcanoes that produce mostly lava flows that could make this cut. This also gets at the <a href="https://www2.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9819/2730">type of volcano</a> and the <a href="http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/Natural_Disasters/volcan&amp;magma.htm">type of magma</a> erupted. Cinder cones are much less likely to cause wide-spread destruction versus a compound volcano or caldera (Think of this like <em>Volcano</em> &#8212; a cinder cone and lava flows, mostly &#8212; versus <em>Dante&#8217;s Peak</em> &#8212; a compound/stratovolcano). Volcanoes that erupt basalt are much less likely to cause an explosive eruption (although not impossible) than a volcano that erupts stickier, more silica-rich lava like dacite or rhyolite.</li>
<li><strong>How many people live close to the volcano?</strong> Being &#8220;close&#8221; is tricky to quantify as the type of eruption will define whether one person who is close at one volcano might not be close at another. In other words, big explosive eruptions with lots of ash that is shot into the atmosphere will impact a wider area (maybe 50-100 kilometers out?) than one that has lots of lava flows (maybe a few to 10 kilometers out?)</li>
<li><strong>How closely is the volcano being monitored?</strong> Nothing is more dangerous that something that we don&#8217;t see coming.</li>
<li><strong>How well prepared is the area for a major disaster?</strong> Nowhere can be 100% prepared, but having plans for evacuations and hazard plans to know where the most impact will be can go a long way to reducing danger.</li>
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<p>Really, what I consider as &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; is a volcano that has the highest likelihood of significant numbers of casualties in an eruption. What is &#8220;significant numbers&#8221;? Maybe over 500 deaths? So, that got me thinking about deaths in volcanic eruptions over the last ~120 years. And guest what? We&#8217;ve gotten better at not being killed in large numbers by volcanic eruptions.</p>
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<p>What is this chart saying? Well, at least to me, there are two things: (1) there is a constant, base level of deaths (fewer an 100 deaths per event) that can be chalked how volcanoes can be unpredictable on the local scale and (2) since the start of the 20th century, large casualty events with &gt;1000 deaths have been going down. Now, there is one exception after 1902: <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/november-13-1985-the-nevado-del-ruiz-lahars/">Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia in 1985</a>, where 28,000 people died in volcanic mudflows (lahars), but it might actually be the exception that proves the rule.</p>
<p>Why are deaths down? It is clearly not because there are fewer of us. Population has increased by about 5 billion since 1900, so there should be more people living near volcanoes, especially in places growing quickly like South and Central America along with southeast Asia. It is clearly not that volcanic activity is lower&#8212;more or less, the Earth&#8217;s volcanic engine keeps chugging along at rates that we&#8217;ve seen over the last 10,000 years (at the very least).</p>
<p>My bet is that this is the signal that we&#8217;re just getting better at monitoring volcanoes, planning for eruptions and mitigating the results of an eruption. One of the best examples of when the lack of volcano monitoring and hazard plan was most evident was that outlier, the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. In that case, the dissemination of information to people living near the volcano was so chaotic and the disagreement about what the volcano might be next was so prominent that tens of thousands people died. This could have been avoided as there was potentially hours between the start of the eruption and the arrival of the lahars in the towns that were hit, so people could have walked to safety.</p>
<p>It is scenarios like that at Nevado del Ruiz that keep volcanologists up at night. So, when deciding what volcanoes might be more dangerous, you really need to think about both the volcano and people. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll get into as I try to figure out what are really the &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; volcanoes in Part 2.</p>

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